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Please note that all patients in the practice are allocated to a Named GP. This is following guidelines from the Department of Health. Although it is preferable to try and maintain some continuity with seeing the same GP for an existing medical condition, this does not stop you from seeing any GP within the practice.

If you currently have a repeat medication on prescription, your named GP will be printed on your repeat medication order form. If you are still unsure as to whom your Named GP is, please ask at the reception desk, or speak to a GP/nurse at your next appointment

Dr Ofe is one of our GP registrars who is here with the practice for 18 months.

In surgery: Monday, Tuesday afternoon, Thursday and Friday.

Nurses

Practice nurses are qualified and registered nurses. They can help with health issues such as female contraception (e.g Implants and coils), anti-coagulation services (e.g. Warfarin testing), travel advice, cervical smears, childhood vaccinations and dressings. The practice nurses also run clinics for long-term health conditions such as asthma, COPD and diabetes.

Nurse Simon Beckett (m)

Nurse Carole Horton (f)

Nurse Lynn Pamphilon (f)

Health Practitioners

Our Urgent Care Practitioners are registered paramedics or nurses who have completed additional training, and so are able to assess, diagnose, treat and manage illness and disease. Our Urgent Care Practitioners help to run the Minor Injuries Unit (MIU) at Faversham Cottage Hospital. The MIU is available to all patients both in and out of Faversham.

It is open from 8 AM till 8 PM 7 days a week, including Bank Holidays (apart from Christmas Day).

You can get help for any Minor Injuries, cuts, wounds, grazes, eye and ear injuries, bites, abscesses, falls, burns, sprains, strains and foreign bodies.

You can also get treatment for Minor Illnesses for problems like infections, rashes, coughs and colds when your GP surgery is closed.

X-ray is available 10am to 4pm Monday-Friday. Patients need to bring with them the forms provided by their GP and do not need to book an appointment.

Mr Rod Bryant (m)

Mr Ray Furr (m)

Mr Dan Hammond (m)

Mr Damian Hart (m)

Ms Leah Stimson (f)

Healthcare Assistants

Healthcare assistants support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as phlebotomy (drawing blood), blood pressure measurement, electrocardiograms (ECGs), ear syringing, NHS health checks, and new patient checks. They may act as a chaperone when a patient or doctor requests one.

Claire Bowers (f)

Donna Hall (f)

Stacey Harris (f)

Clarissa Hopkins (f)

Practice Management

The practice manager is involved in managing all of the business aspects of the practice such as making sure that the right systems are in place to provide a high quality of patient care, human resources, finance, patient safety, premises and equipment and information technology. The practice manager supports the GPs and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and also helps to develop extended services to enhance patient care.

Kerin Austin

Practice Manager

Sarah-Jane (SJ) Godfrey

Reception Manager

Megan Hughes

Finance and Admin lead

Administration

Sarah Dyer

Office Co-ordinater

Sheila Feaver

Kate Sherwood

Nicola Walraven

Administative assistant to the Practice Manager

Allison Waters

Reception

Receptionists provide an important link for patients with the practice and are your initial contact point for general enquiries. They can provide basic information on services and results and direct you to the right person depending on your health issue or query. Receptionists make most of the patient appointments with the GPs and nurses. They also perform other important tasks such as issuing repeat prescriptions and dealing with prescription enquiries, dealing with financial claims, dealing with patient records and carrying out searches and practice audits.

Charlotte Anderson

Ellen Cunningham

Fran Fernandez

Elliot Hart

Kayleigh Hawkes

Rose Large

Carol Packham

Nina Richards

Zoe Short

Ann Squires

Sharon Taylor

Lesley Turner

Susan Whitcombe

Secretaries

Sue Cork

Sarah Hogben

Rona Rundle

Physician Assistants

Jessica Ratcliffe (f)

Jessica is our trainee Physician Assistant. She is here on a Wednesday

Health Visitors

A health visitor is a registered nurse who has received training particularly related to babies, children and pregnant women. Their role is to provide families with children under five years old with support and advice around the general aspects of mental, physical and social wellbeing.

Attached Staff

Other services are available locally in the Health Centre or in the local children centres: